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today, paul ryan, a total believer in "atlas shrugged" philosophy did it like in the book. mitt romney's running mate came forward with a plan that gives the biggest tax rate in the world to the richest. paying for it with huge slashes in programs for middle class working people and the poor. call it ryan shrugged. it kills the president's health care plan outright in its crib. dumps medicare for a cheapskate voucher scheme. and offloads medicaid on to the states and steals from the ordinary people, that old 47%, and gives a bundle to the elite at the top. why is ryan doing this? you just have to ask, why after getting beaten and rejected in the presidential election last november is the vice presidential candidate coming out here trying to etch-a-sketch the whole thing, pretend the election never happened? tell me, where's ryan express, taking the republican party further off the cliff? if he's giving up -- what's he doing? giving us a souvenir roadmap of where they all went wrong? in a moment we'll be joined by congresswoman debbie wasserman-schultz. with us now, "washing
today, paul ryan, a total believer in "atlas shrugged" philosophy did it like in the book. mitt romney's running mate came forward with a plan that gives the biggest tax rate in the world to the richest. paying for it with huge slashes in programs for middle class working people and the poor. call it ryan shrugged. it kills the president's health care plan outright in its crib. dumps medicare for a cheapskate voucher scheme. and offloads medicaid on to the states and steals from the...
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we have rand paul, we've got marco rubio, paul ryan and a slew of smart, young, and energetic governors ready to take america into the future. and the other guys, they got hillary and joe biden. >> okay. let me get to the politics of this. you're good at this, gene. you've been an editor. he's thinking about tomorrow morning. he knew he just stepped on it. he made what could be a sexist, and certainly was an ageist comment. you're referring to hillary. who's younger than him, by the way, by five years. >> absolutely. >> being one of the "golden girls" which is a popular show. his shot was negative. he covered his butt by throwing biden under the bus. >> what else could he do at that point? >> he heard those footsteps coming his direction. >> he realized he had said something he shouldn't have said. certainly said it in a way -- >> one of the great catchers, the gotcha journalists going to do with the guy? i heard it's already online. people commenting about this. it's not a big attraction, but -- >> there's so much coming out of cpac. you know, donald trump going nutso and other things.
we have rand paul, we've got marco rubio, paul ryan and a slew of smart, young, and energetic governors ready to take america into the future. and the other guys, they got hillary and joe biden. >> okay. let me get to the politics of this. you're good at this, gene. you've been an editor. he's thinking about tomorrow morning. he knew he just stepped on it. he made what could be a sexist, and certainly was an ageist comment. you're referring to hillary. who's younger than him, by the way,...
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that's the great trick of paul ryan to recognize if you only talk about budget deficit, where does your budget put the deficit 20, 30 years from now, the amount of things you sneak in under that cloak that you can never put into the conversation in a serious way in normal times is tremendous. that's the central political innovation of his career. >> the favorite thing in the accounting discussion is compare the government to a family, saying you couldn't -- well, families do run debt, they cannot afford to buy their houses for cash, so they have a thing called a mortgage, which is the national debt of the family in effect. they try to oversimplify everything in this, but is there some break through in this point of republicans saying you know what, the debt isn't such a serious problem? >> there's no break through. i think it is a big deal that john boehner and others can't uphold this that the debt crisis is coming now or soon. if you go through what he said further, he said it is looming and coming. this is always the thing, with this spring of deficit hawk, there's always in some fut
that's the great trick of paul ryan to recognize if you only talk about budget deficit, where does your budget put the deficit 20, 30 years from now, the amount of things you sneak in under that cloak that you can never put into the conversation in a serious way in normal times is tremendous. that's the central political innovation of his career. >> the favorite thing in the accounting discussion is compare the government to a family, saying you couldn't -- well, families do run debt,...
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. >> except paul ryan who also loves to repeal the affordable care act. >> right. but for the republican party, particularly for the conservative wing of the republican party, obama care, the fordable care act is not settled business. no matter what the supreme court says, no matter what congress says. remember, congress has tried more than 30 times to repeal the affordable care act to no avail. >> 32 times. krystal, are they wishing to relitigate, perhaps, the last election as well? >> i think they've got nowhere else to go. i really think they have no other idea and they have to fall back on the thing they've been saying for the past four years. >> wow. jonathan capehart and krystal ball, thank you both. >> thanks, martin. >> thanks so much to you for watching on a historic day. chris matthews, of course, will pick things up right now. >>> hope for the pope. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with the election of a new pope. it brings with it a great hope and not just for catholics. it pro promises a pr
. >> except paul ryan who also loves to repeal the affordable care act. >> right. but for the republican party, particularly for the conservative wing of the republican party, obama care, the fordable care act is not settled business. no matter what the supreme court says, no matter what congress says. remember, congress has tried more than 30 times to repeal the affordable care act to no avail. >> 32 times. krystal, are they wishing to relitigate, perhaps, the last election...